Re:What is a fork, and how GitHub changed its meaning
by u801e on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:58PM
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> Obviously you have to use a command line mail client too
Not really. You could use a GUI client like Thunderbird to respond to emails pertaining to a particular commit as long as you're not actually trying to paste code in the composer. If you want to put something like a code snippet delimited by a "scissors line", then you'll need to use git format-patch and/or git send-email.
In other words, it doesn't matter what MUA (Mail User Agent) you use if you're just sending text, but if you are sending code in the form of a diff that someone will apply using git am, then you'll have to use a tool like git format-patch and git send-email to compose the message and send it.
Not really. You could use a GUI client like Thunderbird to respond to emails pertaining to a particular commit as long as you're not actually trying to paste code in the composer. If you want to put something like a code snippet delimited by a "scissors line", then you'll need to use git format-patch and/or git send-email.
In other words, it doesn't matter what MUA (Mail User Agent) you use if you're just sending text, but if you are sending code in the form of a diff that someone will apply using git am, then you'll have to use a tool like git format-patch and git send-email to compose the message and send it.